The Edge of the World

I am far from home, 
wherever that is.

These graceless pagodas
and skies of stained glass,

are haze, are mirages:
here is Home. See it waver. 

I tell people of the Kingdom
because I am not too sure what it means; 
lost amid unravelling seams of seeming,
in words that are not foreign but when I speak lose meaning.

The city unstitched is paltry sutures,
yet the subway map 

coils serpentine -
remakes the World. 

You force yourself forward under a flag of flesh.
You tell the continents I am until eventually you are not.